William V. Roth, Jr.
William Victor " Bill" Roth, Jr. ( born July 22, 1921 in Great Falls, Montana, † December 13, 2003 in Washington DC ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the State of Delaware in both chambers of Congress.
Life
After attending the public schools in Helena and the high- school graduation in this city William Roth studied until 1943 at the University of Oregon, before 1947, the Harvard Business School and graduated in 1949 and his law degree from the Law School at Harvard was. Previously, he had served in World War II in an intelligence unit of the U.S. Army, where he remained from 1943 to 1946.
1950 Roth was admitted to the Bar of California; Four years later he moved to Delaware and settled down there permanently. He worked as a corporate lawyer for the Hercules Corporation, a chemical company based in Wilmington. In 1965 he married Jane Richards, a lawyer, federal judge at the United States Court of Appeals for the third circuit court later. The couple had two children.
Policy
For the first time, Roth competed in 1960 for political office, but he lost the election for Lieutenant Governor of Delaware to Democrat Eugene Lammot very scarce. In 1966, he stepped on to Delaware's choice seat in the House of Representatives of the United States against the Democratic incumbent Harris B. McDowell and prevailed with 56 percent of the vote; Two years later he met again on McDowell and won with even greater advantage, so he originally set for January 3, 1971 would be parliamentary mandate to exercise.
He put this but on 31 December 1970 down, after he had previously been elected to the U.S. Senate. There he took his seat on the following day one because its not kandidierender predecessor John J. Williams resigned prematurely to allow his successor to an earlier entry. As a result, Roth succeeded four times the re-election; He achieved the best result here in 1988 when he won against Shien Piao Woo, the Democratic lieutenant governor of Delaware with 62 percent of the vote.
When Senator Roth acted conservatively in fiscal terms. From 12 September 1995 to January 3, 2001, he assumed the chairmanship of the Finance Committee of the Senate and always made himself strong for tax cuts in this function. Together with Jack Kemp in 1981 he brought a draft for a tax cut bill that was known as the Kemp -Roth Tax Cut. However, he was also one of the few Republicans who voted in 1994 for a law on firearms control. In 2000, he applied a second time to re-election, but only came to a vote share of 44 percent, subject to the Democratic governor of Delaware, Tom Carper, who consequently replaced him on 3 January 2001 in the Senate. Almost three years later, William Roth died in Washington.